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C@@L!!! Alien Planet Is Rolling Over, Forcing 4 Others to Do Same | |
| cRoSS FiRe Offer Upgrade  User ID: 3644066  United States12/02/2011 01:17 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | A huge alien planet turns super-slow somersaults as it hurtles through space, dragging its four sibling planets along for the topsy-turvy ride, a new study suggests. The giant exoplanet, known as 55 Cancri d, gets tugged by a faraway companion star as it orbits its own parent star. As a result, the planet performs a flip over the course of millions of years, and the other four planets in the system follow suit, researchers said. Located about 40 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cancer (the Crab), the 55 Cancri system contains two stars, one with five planets in a seemingly stable orbit. The other star is almost 1,100 times as far away from them as the sun is from Earth, but it still affects them. The effect is not on the planets' orbits but on their axes. The axis of a planet runs through its center; the planet spins around it each day. The axes of most planets tend to line up more or less with the axis of their star. Most planets change the angle, or precess, slightly over time, but only a few swing significantly. 55 Cancri d is one of the swingers. They said "swingers."  Rest @ link: [link to news.yahoo.com] "Nothing is as far away as one minute ago." --Jim Bishop :gameizovar: It's DO:OM o'clock. WAKE UP! |
| Jonny Blaze User ID: 1671225 United States12/02/2011 01:19 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Cool. Thanks for the heads up, OP. No pun intended. The engravings translate to "This space intentionally left blank." The prayer is inscribed in an ancient script, rarely used today. It seems to be a philippic against small insects, absent-mindedness, and the picking up and dropping of small objects. The gate is open; through it you can see a desolation, with a pile of mangled bodies in one corner. Thousands of voices, lamenting some hideous fate, can be heard. The way through the gate is barred by evil spirits, who jeer at your attempts to pass. |
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| cRoSS FiRe (OP) User ID: 3644066 United States12/02/2011 02:19 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Yep. Pretty cool, huh? From the link: Even more intriguing, the planet, which is about four times the size of Jupiter, causes the smaller bodies in the system to swing with it. "Nothing is as far away as one minute ago." --Jim Bishop :gameizovar: It's DO:OM o'clock. WAKE UP! |
| cRoSS FiRe (OP) User ID: 3644066 United States12/02/2011 04:41 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation |  Would LOVE to see a simulated animation of this! Last Edited by cRoSS FiRe on 12/02/2011 04:42 PM "Nothing is as far away as one minute ago." --Jim Bishop :gameizovar: It's DO:OM o'clock. WAKE UP! |
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| Chrit User ID: 1302953 United States12/02/2011 06:00 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Not the sumulation that shows the fliping, but it does show the systems. Good visual Q I'm still looking. Little better on this one. Last Edited by Chrit on 12/02/2011 06:03 PM I'm only human, it's my biggest flaw. We must all realize a sink a chair and a pillow are all luxuries of home and a soldiers helmet takes the place of all three. |
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| ))BAPHOMET(( User ID: 1470234 United Kingdom12/02/2011 06:17 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If normality is the measure of how well adjusted one is to a profoundly sick society, then i dont ever want to be normal. |
| cRoSS FiRe (OP) User ID: 3644066 United States12/02/2011 06:21 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Thought it was funny that someone thought it ws huge as its four times the size of Jupiter. Thing is our planet is absolutely miniscule, it's actually half a planet. And what more is that due to it being so small, we can grow to be huge due to the lower levels of gravity. Kinda Ironic really, bigger planet, smaller inhabitants, smaller planet, larger inhabitants. We're giants. Quoting: ))BAPHOMET(( I am absolutely intrigued by the "dance" they are doing, not to mention their atmospheres, densities, gravitational pulls, all of it. I wish there was more info, but I'm not finding any. :( "Nothing is as far away as one minute ago." --Jim Bishop :gameizovar: It's DO:OM o'clock. WAKE UP! |
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for the night crew.
